Plans et journaux des sièges de la dernière guerre de Flandres, rassemblés par deux capitaines étrangers au service de France.

[FUNCK, Jakob ; GUÉRARD d'ILLENS, Marc]

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Strasbourg, M. Pauschinger, 1750

4to: [8]-113 pp.; 25 pl. with some borders heightened (damp stain to pl. 2, marg. soiling to pl. 17 & 18, occ. spotting).

Contemp. sheep, gilt spine with raised bands (head missing, circular stain on front cover, sm. hole in spine, spine rubbed, corners bumped).

First edition of this account on the sieges of Flemish towns during the Austrian Succession War (1740-1748). The dedication to the Count of Argenson is signed Funck & D’Illens. Ill. with 25 fold. copper-engr.: 1 general map "Théâtre de la dernière guerre de Flandres" and 24 plans and maps, with various decorative cartouches, of Ypres, Ostend, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Mons, etc. With nicely engr. head- and tailpieces.
Ref. Conlon 50:578. - Barbier III:915f.
Prov. Comte René de Germiny (ms. entry).